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$2.00 Per Year in Advance BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2,1920. Established in 1891
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Kearse, Riley,
i Tant Elected
k GUNNELLS , GILLAM A
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! SECOND RACE FOR FIS
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Carter Fails to File Expense
Race?Staley Defes
Weigher al
Tlie primary election Tuc
1 of J. Carl Kearse and W. L.
sentatives, Mr. Kearse recei1
ever cast for a contested offic
IS. G. Ray was reelected si
D. J. Delk.
W. B. Smoak defeated E.
J. S. Tant ryeeiyed a maj
incumbent,, for county comr
trict.
Jeff Ctunnels, J. B. Gillam
ed as magistrates for Olar,
sportively. The contest at
> second race will be necessary
it was -ascertained- vesterdav
r WILL HOLD COTTON ]
i FOR HIGHER PRICE
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FARMERS OF STATE TAKE OATH
TO KEEP STAPLE OFF MARKET.
I An Export Corporation.
W With Capital Stock of One Million
I Bales Planned?Thousands
At Columbia.
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Columbia, xAug. 25.?Four thousand
South Carolinians swore before I
. . "the God of Justice" today that they
"would not sell their cotton at prevail'
ing prices, adopted plans for the formation
of an export corporation with
a capital stock of one million bales,
pledged themselves to retire 25 per
cent, of the new crop from the market
and agreed to reduce the acreage
of the 1920 crop by 33 1-3 per cent.
A legal contract was drawn up to be
signed by the farmers agreeing to the
reduction of acreage.
There was not an auditorium in the
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city of Columbia big enough to hold
the crowd which gathered from every
section of the state today for the
meeting. The first attempt was made
to hold the meeting in Craven Hall,
x where the association has held all of
vits former meetings. The hall was
soon crowded to the suffocation point!
- and the crowd surging at the doors!
demanded entrance, a hasty confer-!
cnce was held on the plaform by of-;
ficials and it was decided to move the!
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meeting to the Columbia theatre.
Adjourn to University Campus.
; The crowd insisted that it would
'* . not hold all who were seeking admission.
Finally Governor Cooper arose and
suggested that the meeting 'be ad-j
journed to the campus of the Univer-1
sity of South Carolina and that meet-j
ine be held in the open air. This ac-l
tion was agreed to and with a whoop
the crowd moved on the university
campus some five blocks awav..There
for more than four hours they planned
the movement which they say will j
free them from the domination of the
bears of Wall street.
Speeches were deliveT?d by J. Skoti
towe Wannamaker, president of the
American Cotton Association; United
States Senator Nat B. Dial; A. F. Ley1
r ? er, member of the Federal Reserve
Board; Governor Cooper and others.
"Th^y shall not have-our cotton
except at a fair and reasonable price,"
was the slogan of the meeting. Working
to this end the convention unanimously
adopted the resolution providing
for the formation of the export
corporation with a capital stock of j
one, million bales of cotton.
Hundreds of farmers wanted to!
subscribe to the corporation today;
and were impatient because subscirp- i
tion blanks could not be printed in I
time for distribution at the meeting.1
Telegrams poured in from all over i
^ the south pledging heavy subscriptions
of stock.
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The convention also unanimously ^
passed a resolution providing for the
reduction of acreage of 33 1-3 per
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[ay, Smoak,
I County Officers
ND YARLEY ELECTED
JRATES.
H POND MAGISTRATE.
Account But May be Second
its Folk for Cotton
; Denmark.
'sdav resulted in the election
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Kiley tQ the house 01 repressing
one of the largest votes
;e in this county,
leriff by a safe majority over
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C. Bruce for supervisor.
oritv over W. H. Collins, the
nissioner for the upper disi
and L. Gr. Yarlev were elect
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Denmark and Elirhardt, reFish'Pond
indicates that a
between Carter and Hill,. but
r that Mr. Carter had failed
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BOXES ;
Lees
Clear Pond
Colston
Ernbree
Denmark
Ehrhardt
Midway
Edisfo
Bamberg . I
Little Swamp .... ,
Ivearse .'.
.Higlitower's
Hunter's Chapel
Olar
Goran
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cent. A legal contract to be signed
by the farmers, providing a penalty
in the courts for the violation thereof,
was enthusiastically approved and
it was declared that the contract
would be signed by every farmer in
South Carolina white and colored.
The convention with a cheer passed
the resolution calling for the retiring
of 25 per cent, of the new crop
from the market. A resolution was
unanimously odpted by the conveners
of the south would no longer grow
cotton and sell it at a p 'ice below a
reasonable profit. "Poverty and illiteracy
has been our inheritance because
vcf the low price of cotton and
we swear before God of Justice that
it shall not be the inheritance of our
children," read a sentence in the resotion.
A telegram was read from Governor
Harding, of the Federal Reserve
Board, strongly endorsing the proposed
export corporation and a strong
telegram was-also read, from Secretary
of Agriculture Meredith.
There were many visitors present
from other stateb and all reported
that the meeting of the American Cotton
Association at Montgomery September
1-2-3 at which a minimum
Price for cotton would be fixed, would
be the most largely attended meeting
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in the history of the association.
Conversation Measure,
"Rastus, how is it you have given
up going to church?" asked Pastoi
Brown.
"Well, sah," replied Rastus, "it's
dis^way. I *iikes to take an active
part, an' I used to pass de collectionbasket,
but dey's give de job to
Brothah Green, who jest returned
from ovah-thai-ah."
"In recognition of his heroic service,
I suppose?"
t-oli T rQr>lfnn }-. cs PT>t fiat iob
oa.11 -A 1 VViWU iAV V ? v
in reco'nition o' liis having lost one
o' his hands."?Argonaut.
Quick Ohanges.
"In Mexico," says Uncle Albimelech
Bogardus, "a feller's got to buy^ the
latest extry to see whether he's d patriot
or a traitor."?Seattle Post Intelligencer.
E. D. Smith Les
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HARVEY LEADS TWO OP
ANT GO1
MOORE DEFEA
Shealy Leads All Opponen
With Secand Rac
Walterbo
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iteiurns irom me suae
morning indicated that Sena
j of his next highest competit
! a second race will likely be n(
j. Adjutant General Moore
I Marcliant, of Orangeburg, la
A second race seemed
Mauldin for lieutenant govci
bv several thousand votes.
Frank W. Shealey was lc
road commissioner, with D. J
to file his expense account, ai
eel under the rules of the par
J. F. Staley was elected
over D. E. Folk.
FIRST PRIMARY ELE(
U. S. Senate Lt. Governor Adj,<
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MAGISTRATE.
Olar.
Gunnells Morris
j Colston 43 16
,| Olar 78 78
Govan
Govan 4 0 16
161 110
, Fish Pond
, Carter Herndon Hill
Embree 9 15
Edisto 7 35
Little Swamp ..28 5 6
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Lees 8 27
Denmark 91 119
Hightower's 9 22
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108 168
i ; Ehrhardt.
Kinard Yarley
Ehrhardt 65 110
'' Kearse 10 32
75 142
[ COTTON WEIGHER,
Denmark.
Folk Staley
Lees 20 15
Denmark 95 114
Hightower's 6 25
121 154
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Waiting to See Him Off.
i x The excuses offered by school boys
1 are often laughable, perhaps none
more so than those of two pupils of a
i country school for being late. Asked,
i why he didn't come when he heard
the bell, one boy said: "Please, sir,I
> I was dreaming I was going to Cali.
fornia, and I thought the school bell
was the steamboat I was going on."
"You did, eh!" said the teacher.;
"And you sir," turning to the second i
1 boy, "what have you to say for yonri
self?" "Please, sir, I?lwas just
waiting to see Tom off."
A Birthday Reminder.
l Neil?Tomorrow is Jack's twenty>
eighth birthday.
Doris?Are you going to give him
anything? ,
Boston Transcript.
ids by Big
)r U. S. Senator
PONENTS FOR LIEUTENFERNOR.
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TS MARCHANT.
ts for R. R. Commissioner,
:e With Smith, of
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primary up to Wednesday
tor Smith was far in the lead
or, George Warren, but that
>eessarv to make a choice,
was reelected over Atticds H.
r a large majority,
likelv between Harvey and
nor, with Harvey in the lead
ading vail opponents for rail1/.
fsBiitk coming second.
id therefore mav be eliminattv.
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cottdn weigher at Denmark
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3TION, AUGUST 31, 1920."
Sen. | R. R. Comm'r j House R<
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A NEW SYSTEM ON AUTO TAGS.
Commission is Planning to License
Gars By Weight.
Columbia, Aug. 26.?A system of
licensing automobiles, different from
that of most states and never yet
I tried in South Carolina, is being
worked out by the state highway denartment
in Columbia now, acting
j under the 1920 highway act, and
j looking the licening of motor vej
hides for 1921. Under the new sysj
tem cars will be licensed according
to weight and not according to horsepower.
There will be under the new system,
seven different classes of licenses
for automobiles and ten for
trucks, besides licenses for dealers
and motorcycles. The main thing
about the 1921 automobile license
plate will be its class, not its number.
For 1921 licensing automobiles
will be granted in the following classes:
Class A for light cars, up to two
thousand pounds; Class B from two
thousand to 2,500 pounds; Class C,
2,500 to 3,000 pounds; Class D, 3,000
to 3,500; Class E, 3,500 to 4,000;
Class F, 4,000 to 4,500; Class
G, over 4,500 pounds. In each class
the number will start at 1.
For licensing trucks there will be
licenses for hard tires and different
licenses for pneumatic tires. In
each group there will be five classes,
one-ton, 2-ton, 3-ton, 4-ton, and
over four tons. No truck of moxe
than four ton capacity is allowed on
the state highways in South Carolina,
exce; - with special permission
of th<=> highway commission. There
wir also be plates for dealers, motor
j cycles, and motorcycle dealers.
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iiie luguwav ueparimem is preparing
now to advertise for bids on
the manufacture of the license plates.
All the plates will be similar in color.
There will be 148,600, greater
number than ever before for the
state. The highway department has
this year issued 87,600 plates, but
a larger number of automobiles are
anticipated for 1921.
Read The Herald, $2 per year.
Warren Carries
by an Ovc
HARVEY IS CHOICE IN T]
GOVERNOR OVER
SMITH LEADS FOR R
W. W. Moore Receives Bulk <
and Inspector Gen
Primary !
Bamberg county register
Tuesday's primary for Georg
didate for United States sei
Smith. Mr. Warren received
of Senator Smith in this conn
ed only a scattering vote thr<
Wilson G. Harvev was th<
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voters of the county, with Mi
county honors.
Adjutant and Inspector G
ed a majority of the votes fc
ent, Attieus H. Marchant, of
i I). L. Smith, of Walterbor
I ty for railroad commissioner,
| second honors.
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rnTT>imTFS AND TOBACCO.
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1 Harding and Roosevelt Smoke Cigarettes
and Cox Smokes Pipe.
Lucy Page Gaston and other determined
foes of "terbacker" will get
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- mighty little comfort this year out of
r the stand on the weed of the national
candidates of the big parties for the
offices of president and vice president.
The score is three to one in favor of
. smoking tobacco, cigarettes and ci,i
gars. Of the quartet, Gov. Calvin
. Coolidge alone does not smoke.
So far as the statistics are available,
Jimmy Cox seems to be the only
member of the quartet who smokes a
. pipe, but he does not regularly. In
, fact, it is declared that he has so far
, conquered the briar that he frequent
ly calls for his pipe after breakfast.
, And that is the acid test of pipe smok,
ing'. Only one man in history?so far
as the books tell us, Brother Tom Car,
lyle?ever smoked a pipe before
. breakfast and lived. But folks who
, had to associate with him died off
, rapidly. Cox, however, is said to be
quite sweettempered when he par.
takes of an after-breakfast pipe. He
, also takes a flyer in cigars now and
then.
Senator Harding smokes cigarettes
and does not care who knows it. He
even has his picture taken with cigarettes
in his hands. He does not roll
his own.
As for Franklin Roosevelt, he
smokes a very popular brand of cigarette,
and it rumored, is saving the
coupons to get a couch, or something. |
Anyhow, he smokes quite a few, but!
they do not injure him, apparently,
for he is about as husky a citizen as
one would meet in a day's travel.
Private investigators who have j
sought to learn if the Rev. Wakins, |
who heads the Prohibitionists smokes,;
found him at his home running the
washing machines, so they reported
negatively without further inquiry.
It will seem strange to see a smoker
in the White Hoise. Few recent
presidents have smoked. Most vice
presidents, smoke, of course, because
otherwise their hands would be heavy
with time, dew, moss and such.?
Washington Herald.
the County
irwhelming Vote
BUS COUNTY FOR LIEUT.
HIS OPPONENTS.
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af County Vote for Adjutant
leral in Tuesday's
Election.
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a very flattering vote in
;e Warren, of Hampton, can"ln-fn-p
nocQinQ-j- ftprm+nr TTI TV
tVA U^tUULUl MVUlitUX J?
I iliore than double the votes
ty. Pollock and Irbv receivmghout
the county.
e choice of a plurality of the
\ Mauldin a close second for
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leneral W. W. Moore reeeivJ
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>i' reelection over his opponOrangeburg.
o, led the ticket in the counwith
Shealev coming in for
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COHON OF COLOR
ON BAMBERG FARM
HAS BEEN EXPERIMENTING-FOR
SEVERAL YEARS. f ;
Grown By A. W. Brabham.
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Carolinian is Confident of His Success
in Cultivating New
Kinds.
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A. W. Brabham's experiments with
colored cotton continues to attract
wide attention. Mr. Brabham has
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made* his experiments on his plantation,
The Hermitage, near Olar,
Bamberg county, and Luther Burbank,
the plant wizard, has communicated
with him on the, matter.
The Savannah Morning News of
recent date published the following ,
article under a double .column headline:
"After experiments for several
years in producing cottons of color,
A. W. Brabham, of The Hermitage,
Olar, S. C., believes that the end
sought, which is the production of
black cotton, is ii^ sight.
"Mr. Brabham has sent the Morning
News four samples of cottons of
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solor which sustain his claim that
he has successfully produced these
cottons of extremely fine fibre. The
four samples shade from light brown
to dark brown and from light green
to dark green. He says that there
has never been a softer or finer fibre
than the dark brown sample and that
cloth woven from such cotton would
make a fabric that would surpass in
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softness any textile material yet developed.
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"Four years ago Mr. Brabham sent
his first specimens of cottons in col
ors to 4h? Morning i\ews and 10 me
Savannah Cotton Exchange. He says
now that he ha? never abandoned the '
idea of producing cotton of that class
but for two years he made no progress,
the crop each year having been
destroyed before reaching maturity.
This year great care was exercised in
the few plants of this cotton that he
grew. When the plants open up -in
full Mr. Brabham thinks that other
colors besides the four he has no^v
may appear.
"Luther Burbank wrote Mr. Brab- p.ham
that he would undertake the
job of producing black cotton for a
million dollars. Mr. Brabham says
that a glance at one of his samples
shows that he is in a fair way to
produce it at a much lower cost than
a million. He says further that he
is sure he would have produced black
cotton this year had not a package ri
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of blue tinted cotton imported from
India miscarried. Mr. Brabham has
a Hindu botanist of Delhi gathering
specimens of cottons of color in India,
and this botanist has located blue,
grey and a light pink. He hopes to
have another consignment of seed
from India in the near future, and is
also hoping to get the colors growing v>
in Peru. It is, however, he says, very
difficult to get foreign seed because
so many careless or dishonest peri
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